That's awesome you guys stuck in the scene so long, I'll have to fire up FC2 sometime and check it out. I played 3 for about 5 minutes, and 4 was fine but I only played it on console.

Right there with you ParVo, for a long time anyway. I hardly played much for a few years, just now getting back to playing with CSGO. I have no idea what the old SC guys are up to, as far as I can tell they've mostly stopped playing. I tried looking up CC and Slug a while back, but neither of their phone #'s worked, and their handles were all inactive.

Yeah, that was my house that burned. One of my best maps was a replica of the spread here so a lot of FC2 people "knew" that house. It was a huge bummer.

Unfortunately last I checked the Map Community section of FC2, it was down. Not only could you download maps from there and do keyword and creator searches and stuff, it kept track of stats: most-downloaded, most-played, highest-ranked, all that. It was pretty awesome for us from the ego point of view. Defty and our guy Tango designed some PHP/mySQL-type shit that kept live charts of our map numbers on our homepage and stuff. It was pretty neat. I'm still not sure how they managed to mine those figures from Ubi in real time....

Looks like a nice start. What engine and/or 3d modeling software are you using?

I've been learning Blender the last few months as a part of my job (bridge engineer). Specifically, Python scripting within Blender to quickly (parametrically) model my bridge designs to scale for visualization purposes. It's fun.